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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mandy hinzmann”
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  • Factor X

    Challenges, Implementation Strategies and Examples for a Sustainable Use of Natural Resources

    by Stephen Bell, Mandy Hinzmann, Martin Hirschnitz-Garbers, Nick Evans, Terri Kafyeke ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes and analyses necessities for a more resource-efficient world. It discusses solutions for a more sustainable use of natural resources, addressing decision-makers and experts from the fields of policy development, industry, academia, civil society, and the media. The book presents strategies, concrete ways and examples of achieving more sustainable resource use in practice ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Economics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Partha Dasgupta ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and in Ethiopia. He compares the obstacles facing them, and the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Blackout

    Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic growth is based almost entirely on coal-generated electricity.Coal currently looks like a solution to many of our fast-growing energy problems. However, while coal advocates are urging full steam ahead, increasing reliance on the dirtiest of all fossil ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oil in the Environment

    Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

    Edited by John A. Wiens ...
    What light does nearly twenty-five years of scientific study of the Exxon Valdez oil spill shed on the fate and effects of a spill? How can the results help in assessing future spills? How can ecological risks be assessed and quantified? In this, the first book on the effects of Exxon Valdez in fifteen years, scientists directly involved in studying the spill provide a comprehensive perspective on ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change

    Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making

    by S. Niggol Seo ...
    The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing climate conditions can alter these strategies. Through quantitative analyses, case studies and policy examples, this bottom-up approach to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Relationship Between FDI and the Natural Environment

    Facts, Evidence and Prospects

    by Pasquale Pazienza ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This work examines in depth the relationship between foreign direct investment and the environment. Over the last few decades, increasing levels of environmental degradation have been recorded and have been claimed to be particularly attributable to globalization and the widespread increase of economic activities, in particular foreign direct investments (FDIs). However, the environmental ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Sustainable Development in Energy Systems

    Edited by Brian Azzopardi ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Presenting the latest research on the sustainable development of energy systems, this book provides a broad and holistic perspective on various aspects of renewable energy sources and grid integration. It highlights the integration of renewable and alternative systems into existing infrastructures, and explores the synchronization of environmental and development needs with other social challenges ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Towards Low Carbon Cities in China

    Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    Edited by Sun Sheng Han, Ray Green, Mark Wang ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Low Carbon Development
    This book explores the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights for policy, urban planning and management.Drawing on the results of a four-year multidisciplinary research project, the book examines how factors such as urban households’ access to services and jobs, land use mixes and provision of public transport impact on greenhouse gas ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Drought Management Planning in Water Supply Systems

    Proceedings from the UIMP International Course held in Valencia, December 1997

    Edited by Enrique Cabrera, Jorge García-Serra ...
    Series Book 32 - Water Science and Technology Library
    During the past decade many countries in the world have experienced droughts, with severe impacts on water urban supply systems. Because droughts are natural phenomena, water utilities must design and implement drought management plans. This topic was selected for the International Course on Drought Management Planning in Water Supply Systems, which took place in Valencia, Spain, on 9-12 December ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Social and Ecological System Dynamics

    Characteristics, Trends, and Integration in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia

    Edited by Krystyna Stave, Goraw Goshu, Shimelis Aynalem ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a social—ecological system description and feedback analysis of the Lake Tana Basin, the headwater catchment of the Upper Blue Nile River. This basin is an important local, national, and international resource, and concern about its sustainable development is growing at many levels. Lake Tana Basin outflows of water, sediments, nutrients, and contaminants affect water that flows ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Sugarcane Complex in Brazil

    The Role of Innovation in a Dynamic Sector on Its Path Towards Sustainability

    by Felix Kaup ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book offers an in-depth analysis of the Brazilian sugarcane complex with a special focus on technological advances that promote sustainable development. It first examines the question why sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil is considered a superior alternative to fossil fuel compared to other biofuels produced on an industrial scale and subsequently analyzes the most dynamic areas within the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Environmental Kuznets Curves

    A Study on the Economic Theory and Political Economy of Environmental Quality Improvements in the Course of Economic Growth

    by Michael P. Vogel ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Environmental Kuznets Curves - one of the most controversial issues of current environmental economics - suggest that economic growth may lead to environmental quality improvements. Why and under which circumstances this may be so, are the questions addressed in this book. The approach taken is formal, using techniques of static and dynamic optimisation. In addition, the main assumptions, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD